"Within hours, police identified Phebus as a possible suspect" the article says. From that vague description? Makes me wonder how? Perhaps there was video surveillance, but the article says nothing about that. It just sounds like the cops already knew the guy.

Why is this not on the front page of al.com? I had to hunt for any story about the weather damage.
And why are there comments about immigration posted on this story? I really don't understand some people.

@odd1in You don't know if they went to school at Oak Grove, using mom's boyfriend or a grandmother or someone else's address. In the original article someone said they frequently went for a walk in the woods before school, so it sounds like they were from the area. Maybe mom just moved to Pelham. At any rate no one should be making assumptions about this case without all the facts.

"County commissioners, who make about $65,000 annually, did not lay off any of their office staff during the cutbacks or say they would cut their own pay." This is the biggest problem, the people in charge are not going to do anything to hurt themselves, and there is no accountability because we keep putting the same criminally incompetent people back in office. The line about people getting the government they deserve was never so true as it is for Jefferson County.

So they're laying off 546 and have 2400 remaining, but no work is going to get done? Sounds like they're laying off the wrong 500, should start at the top.
They keep talking about there being no paving done, and showing Brooklane Rd as an example on the news. There hasn't been any work done on Brooklane in over a year. What's different?
Jefferson county is the most corrupt example of government one could imagine. They have never provided the services they say we're going to have to do without now.